URGENT: REDHAT 6.1 STORES SAMBA PRIVATE FILES IN /etc

[Giulio Orsero]

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:47:41 +1100, hai scritto:

>I agree it would be safer to have a /etc/samba-private
>directory set root only, but they do not ship the system
>as insecure by default (ie. they *can* put root read
>only files in /etc, and it *is* safe to do so).

Why doesn't redhat do something like
/etc/samba
/etc/samba/private
?

with smb.conf in /etc/samba/smb.conf and so on?

I had a caldera-samba-distribution where they did
/etc/samba.d
/etc/samba.d/private

Now I always rebuild the srpm to get this layout which is cleaner/safer,
I think.

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